Resumé

Steven Kirks

What you should know:

I have been a professional sales engineer for 16 years, consistently moving with companies that pioneer within their field or technology. I have built new processes and training curriculum for my position and written standards of practice for design and implementation. I am comfortable with data center design, hardware virtualization and large Cisco networks. I can speak to an owner or CEO to match business drivers to technology in a way that speaks equally to all knowledge levels.

Details: Designed and sold $750,000 worth of equipment and network in the first 12 months with the company plus the two largest equipment sales in district office in the last 5 years. Designed and tested some internal engineering tools.

Details: Work with customer staff and management to design and implement solutions for local- and wide-area networks, data centers, server/application infrastructure and shared storage. Created processes for the design bill of materials and engineering review. Helped to write template for a project scope of work.

11/1999 – 9/2006

NuVox Communications

(Windstream)

Springfield, MO

Sales Engineer

Duties: Design and coordinate the installation of voice and data networks for small and medium size business customers.

Details: Awarded President’s Club – 2000. Work with customers to transition voice and data services to NuVox services. Design training courses for new sales employees and conducted company-wide new hire training from 2000-2001.

Memberships

Association of Information Technology Professionals, Graduate of Leadership Springfield Class XVIII, City of Springfield Cable Advisory Commission, City of Springfield Traffic Advisory Board, and 5 year volunteer at Ozarks Public Television